Perfect white background, as title says. Simple explanations; good voice volume. Straight to the point. Man i thank you a lot, you make a really nice and helpfull tutorial :)
I was wondering why it didn't work until I realized that the white background was added afterwards ..always stopped before the render was finished.. should have watched the tutorial till the end :D
thank you. for some reason my flag didnt match what it was supposed to look like even after exactly copying over the color codes and changing it the view transform under color managment to slandered really help my colors pop more and be color accurate.
Great to hear. In general, the experienced people like the Filmic mode more because it makes the shading richer and more realistic. I tend to make graphics with a white background so that I can reuse it in papers and presentations. This forces me to use Standard.
Oh my gosh! Thank you! this is exactly what I need to know! I've been hassling with for a while! I got most of the way there on my own but I didn't know about changing to standard in the color management settings so even though I was compositing in a white background I was still getting off white and didn't know why.
@@empossible1577 Last time I need that function I was rushing to finish a project and didn't have time to figure it out so I just rendered with a transparent background and opened it up in inkscape to put the pure white background it. I'm glad to not have to do that silliness again!
Though as a side effect this solution makes the background in the viewport transparent, which I find a little hard to work with. To make the composited white background visible, you'd need to use the viewport compositor, which is only available in experimental versions of Blender as of today
I made this in projects i started 6-12 months ago and all of my mashes just disappear. So I get a completely white image after rendering. In a completely new project this works perfectly fine. So I compared all the settings in both projects, but the result stays the same: new project work perfectly, old project is only white. Does someone have a solution/hint to that?
Yes. Near the upper right corner of your 3D viewport there is a row of buttons that selects how the Blender will display the objects as you are working. I wish I could paste a picture here. The first is wireframe, the second is solid (standard CAD view), the third is material preview (can see your shading, but not rendered), and the last is rendered. I think one of the last two is what you want to select.
@@empossible1577 interesting yeah I’m viewing it through render preview mode and still nothing. Thanks for the fast replies by the way. But yeah it’s not working in rendered view or shading view
@@ParallelNewsNetwork You have me a bit stumped. Maybe you are changing the subsurface color instead of the surface color? Maybe you do not have a light source?
@@empossible1577 hmm I’m not sure I got stumped as well and figured out another work around using dynamic sky for now. Just wanted to show gratitude thanks for the quick responses!
Yes, this tutorial does that. If you just change your World setting to white, that will affect the lighting of your scene. This tutorial does not do that. Instead, it uses image transparency. Then after the render, it fills the transparent space with pure white. This does not affect the lighting.
@@empossible1577 thank you. I had some lights that were invisible but active in the render, creating more light then expected. Figured it out eventually. Great tutorial!
I followed everything except it still renders as somewhat slightly off white/grey. I check all the color settings and don't understand what's happening or causing it. ACK!!!
@@empossible1577 Thanks for the quick response. I'm an idiot and forgot that I had a white plane/studio setup that I had hidden from my original light setup and yet was still rendering in. I hid it and problem solved. Thanks for the tutorial! It helped me with my project!
If i want to make a Gif of a rotating object, with perfect white background. But still have it cast a shadow infront of it. How would i do that? Was thinking i might just make a "self illuminating" plane underneath it, that dosn't get affected by the lights in the scene, but im kinda new to blender, so idk how to.. And that would prob cause problems with the shadow again.. haha
Hmmm...I have not done this, but I think if you create plane, make it emit white with strength 1, and also set the lighting mode, it will do what you want. If you figure it, post it here!
True. I tend to not use Blender for photorealistic rendering. Although sometimes I play around with space scenes. Instead, I use Blender for scientific visualization where shadows often confuse things. There are times where I do love shadows! I need the pure white background to put pictures on my slides, in publications, etc.
You don't need to change filmic to standard if you're going to use the compositor. That's basically first setting your background to white (setting filmic to standard) and THEN deleting that shiny white background by using the transparency option together with the alpha over in the compositor. If you have the option to use filmic, use it. It's easier to get nice lighting with it compares to standard.
If you are using an image as the HDRI, you would not have a white background anyway. If you use a World HDRI to all white, why use an HDRI? If you are using an all-white HDRI, I suspect you would set teh brightness to 1 and still set the color mode to Standard. Maybe I do not understand your question.
@@empossible1577 we thought world HDRI gave lighting effects for the object on camera.. when going to cycles wanted to not have hdri image showing.. we managed to find solution.. thanks all same
same... I was going to put out white to remove it on photoshop later, but here's what I did and it worked for a transparent output: I added the nodes, but since the alpha over thing didn't work, I removed it and connected the "Alpha" output on the left to the "Alpha" input on the right, and when I rendered it and saved it as a .png it came out transparent! I did the previous steps according to the video.
Hmmm...Are you changing your world setting to white? That makes it as if white light is coming from every direction instead of just replacing the background with white.
@@zylon186 There is a vertical array of icons on the right side of the screen that includes things like render settings, materials, etc. One of them looks like an Earth. That is your world settings. You will see a color selection tool that is your world lighting. What you have described sounds like this is set to white, or something very bright. I really do not know if this is your actual problem though.
You will still need to switch the color mode to standard. In the material settings for the device, set the base color and emission to pure white. Set emission strength to 1.
This didn't work at all, and instead I had to change the main scene's world background color instead. This went straight over my SVG object, making everything white
@@empossible1577 @empossible1577 there was an option to make things transparent in output of the scene, plus I needed to set rhba, I didn't need to change anything regarding the compositing
Either you deleted the default camera or you have changed your default Blender to not have the camera. Just add a new camera in the same place you would go to add a cube or sphere. There is a category for cameras.
@@empossible1577 I found some bugs in 2.81 so I upgrades to 2.9. In this version absolutely nothing happens. I went back to 2.81 and yes. I just goes completely black (or white if I choose white)
What kind of crap is blender? Even a white background requires effort. The cinematic is not enough. The background stays grey. Even with Compositing and Alpha the background stays gray with Blender 3.0.
Blender is actually an awesome program, but it is setup for artists and certain things are not intuitive to us technical folks. If you are having trouble with this, feel free to e-mail me your Blender file and I can help figure out why your background is not perfectly white. You have to change the lighting mode.
@@cr4723 LOL. I definitely see you point, but think of this way. A white sheet of paper will be a different color of white depending what type of lighting it is in. That white sheet of paper in a very dark room will look dark gray. Out in the bright sun, it will look much more like RGB white, but still will not be perfect RGB white. Blender is attempting to make scenes look realistic where colors will take on different shades depending on the lighting and shadows. How odd would it be for a white sheet of paper to render as perfect RGB white if it was placed in a dark area of a scene? To get a perfect RGB background, you essentially have to break the rules of accurate lighting. This is why it is a bit more difficult than it seems like it should be. I am not sure what your background is, but in my area of science and engineering, I highly recommend Blender as a skill. It will contribute to your career success as it has mine. If you find a better software tool, please let me know. I am always looking for better tools for visualizing and animating crazy 3D concepts.
@@empossible1577 There is a white background in SolidWorks Photoview. There is a white background in Cinema 4D. There is a white background in Corona. There is a white background in Luxcore. There is a white background in Octane. There is a white background in ZBrush Render. There is a white background in 3DS Max Mental Ray. There is a white background in Keyshot. There is a white background in Rhinoceros. There is a white background in Unity. There is a white background in Unreal. What did you want to say again about the light?
